CaPo: Cooperative Plan Optimization for Efficient Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation

In this work, we address the cooperation problem among large language model (LLM) based embodied agents, where agents must cooperate to achieve a common goal. Previous methods often execute actions extemporaneously and incoherently, without long-term strategic and cooperative planning, leading to redundant steps, failures, and even serious repercussions in complex tasks like search-and-rescue missions where discussion and cooperative plan are crucial. To solve this issue, we propose Cooperative Plan Optimization (CaPo) to enhance the cooperation efficiency of LLM-based embodied agents. Inspired by human cooperation schemes, CaPo improves cooperation efficiency with two phases: 1) meta-plan generation, and 2) progress-adaptive meta-plan and execution. In the first phase, all agents analyze the task, discuss, and cooperatively create a meta-plan that decomposes the task into subtasks with detailed steps, ensuring a long-term strategic and coherent plan for efficient coordination. In the second phase, agents execute tasks according to the meta-plan and dynamically adjust it based on their latest progress (e.g., discovering a target object) through multi-turn discussions. This progress-based adaptation eliminates redundant actions, improving the overall cooperation efficiency of agents. Experimental results on the ThreeDworld Multi-Agent Transport and Communicative Watch-And-Help tasks demonstrate that CaPo achieves much higher task completion rate and efficiency compared withthis http URLcode is released atthis https URL.

@article{liu2025_2411.04679,
  title={ CaPo: Cooperative Plan Optimization for Efficient Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation },
  author={ Jie Liu and Pan Zhou and Yingjun Du and Ah-Hwee Tan and Cees G.M. Snoek and Jan-Jakob Sonke and Efstratios Gavves },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.04679},
  year={ 2025 }
}